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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salieri say is the effect of the slowness in the music?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Patience.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Serenity.

2. How old is Salieri in the first scene of the play?
(a) Seventy-two.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Thirty-two.

3. Who wants the new comic opera to be in 'good plain German?'
(a) Salieri.
(b) Leopold Mozart.
(c) Rosenberg.
(d) The Emperor.

4. Where is the opera's story set?
(a) In a harem.
(b) In a grand mansion.
(c) In a Masonic lodge.
(d) In a coffee shop.

5. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?
(a) Count Rosenberg.
(b) Emperor Joseph II
(c) Baron Van Swieten.
(d) Leopold Mozart.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salieri finally realize the extent of Mozart's talent?

2. What was Salieri's home town?

3. Where does Salieri say he was born?

4. In the context of the play, how long has it been since Mozart's death?

5. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on the dramatic function of the Venticelli in the opening scene.

2. What story does the Emperor tell to Mozart?

3. In what way does Salieri claim to be different from his parents?

4. What is the problem with Salieri's drive for fame?

5. In what ways does Salieri work to undermine Mozart in this section of the play?

6. In what way does Salieri believe God is torturing him?

7. How does the play open?

8. Why does Salieri rush out into the street on hearing Mozart's music?

9. What is the significance of the golden light that bathes the Emperor and his court?

10. What does Constanze's response to her husband's accusations tell us about her?

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